Word: bike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend will be held after generals this year, the date should help attract 70 percent of the upper classes, Goldberg added. Informal activities will take place in the Houses Friday night. Dances are planned for Saturday night, and the annual Harvard-Wellesley bike race on Saturday afternoon. The varsity baseball team will play Columbia Saturday, and an interhouse crew race is being considered for the same afternoon...
Goliath and the Bike-Racer. A descendant of the original French aeronauts who bounced from Paris to London in a converted 75-m.p.h. Farman "Goliath" bomber after World War I, Air France was formed in 1933 from five struggling companies. Frenchmen had already pioneered commercial routes through Europe and Africa, flown mail over South American jungles in convoys of three chattering airplanes in order, as one pilot put it, to be sure that "at least one would arrive." The Depression and cutthroat competition forced the small French lines to band together as Air France, 25% government-owned...
...France's postwar comeback is largely the work of a burly Frenchman with a booming laugh and a bike-racer's stamina: Board Chairman Max Hymans, 55, a native Parisian who was successively an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and resistance leader before signing on as Free
...barber shops in Cambridge, 20 are independent. Twenty-six have not joined the union but when the Master Barbers decided to bike the rates recently, they went along with the move and also set the $1.50 price...
...Autobahn outside Munich, German Motorcyclist Wilhelm Noll set two new unofficial world records for motor cycle with sidecar, with his super-streamlined, three-wheeled B.M.W. (Bayerische Motoren Werke) bike (see cut). From a flying start, Noll hit speeds of 282 kilometers (175 m.p.h.) over a measured kilometer, and 177 m.p.h. over a mile...